Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:22:57 -0400 | From: “J. G. Row” <JudyGrow@> If I Remember Correctly IIRC I didn’t know that — I Googled the initials and learned something too. Judy ” Ringo” in Ringoes, NJ judygrow@ From: Patricia L Cummings The following link will bring you to…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Patricia L Cummings <quiltersmuse@> Giles Wright: … “Tobin is bereft of training in African American history; teaching Women’s Studies hardly qualifies her to write about the Underground Railroad. Since Tobin lacked expertise in the field of black history, she clearly lacked the capacity to adequately assess or evaluate…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 21:51:53 -0800 | From: “Christine Thresh” <christine@> I saw this link posted on another list today: http://www.rbhayes.org/quilt.html Interesting story. Perhaps it has been mentioned before and I missed it. Christine Thresh Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 09:47:00 -0000 | From: “Sally Ward” <sallytatters@> Way…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Xenia Cord <xenia@> Virginia Snow Studios (Collingbourne Mills/Dexter Threads, Elgin, Illinois) sold squares of white fabric stamped for the placement of Double Wedding Ring block components. Apparently one pieced the arcs, then appliquéd them to the stamped block. These were marketed as blocks, with information in fine print…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: From: Gail Ingram <gingram@> Does anyone on this list know pattern source for quilt listed “Funky Forties Basket” in DSQSG meeting report? Before my fall Outlook Express crash, a member had identified the source as a pattern that appeared in newspaper in 1940. Quilt was made in Briston, TN….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: February 13, 2004 | From: “Quiltstuff” <quiltstuff@> Hi all, I have just finished reading a new book about old quilts in New Zealand. It is a lovely book and the story of the author’s personal task to catalogue her countries old quilts. The book is called Warm Heritage…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: February 8, 2004 | From: “Jocelyn” <jocelynm@> > > Here is an email I just received from the reporter at the Topeka > Capitol Journal re the article which appeared several days ago, One might think that the Topeka Capitol Journal might be able to spare a reporter…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 | From: “Jocelyn” <jocelynm@> > ordinary names, but in the paper this morning in the comic strip “Get > Fuzzy” (I know all of you don’t get that strip) there was a cat named > Chubby Huggs. He was fat and hugged everybody. I…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:14:16 -0500 | From: “crossland_n_j Crossland” <crossland_n_j@> > Kris Wrote: > This one caught my attention > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2588908969&category=2221 > > but is it silk? Is it mid 19th century? I think not, but I would be > happy to be wrong. What do y’all…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: January 13, 2004 | From: “ChrisA” <chrisa@> HI Suzanne, I looked in two needlework dictionaries: one did not give an age first seen, but showed it could be spelled with or without the “k”; while the other was written in 1882 and it did not list rick-rack in…